Some of the Course Note files contain figures with associated animations or interactive simulations that can be found on the page. A table correlating the figures to the animations can be found here (PDF).
| WEEK # | SES # | TOPICS | SUMMARIES | COURSE NOTES |
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| 1 | 1 | Introduction to TEAL; Fields; Review of gravity; Electric field | (PDF) |
Chapter 1: Sections 1.1-1.6; 1.8 (PDF) Chapter 2 (PDF) |
| 2 | Electric charge; Electric fields; Dipoles; Continuous charge distributions | (PDF) |
Chapter 1: Section 1.6 (PDF) Chapter 2 (PDF) |
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| 3 | Coordinate systems; Gradients; Line and surface integrals | (PDF) | ||
| 2 | 4 | Working in groups, electric potential, E from V | (PDF) | Chapter 3: Sections 3.1-3.5 (PDF) |
| 5 | Electric potential, equipotentials | (PDF) | Chapter 4 (PDF) | |
| 6 | Continuous charge distributions | (PDF) | ||
| 3 | 7 | Gauss’s law | (PDF) |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3-4.4 (PDF) Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
| 8 | Gauss’s law (cont.) | (PDF) |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3-4.4 (PDF) Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
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| 4 | 9 | Conductors and capacitors | (PDF) | Chapter 4 (PDF) |
| 10 | Capacitors | (PDF) |
Chapter 6 (PDF) Chapter 7: Sections 7.1 through 7.4 (PDF) |
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| 11 | Capacitors (cont.) | (PDF) | Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) | |
| 5 | 12 | Current, Resistance, and DC circuits | (PDF) | Chapter 7 (PDF) |
| 13 | Exam 1 information | (PDF) | ||
| 6 | 14 | Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Biot-Savart | (PDF) | Chapter 8 (PDF) |
| 15 | Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Ampere’s Law | (PDF) | Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | |
| 16 | Ampere’s law | (PDF) |
Chapter 8: Sections 8.3-8.4 (PDF) Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
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| 7 | 17 | Magnetic fields: Feeling magnetic fields - charges and dipoles | (PDF) |
Chapter 8: Section 8.4 (PDF) Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 and 9.5 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| 18 | Magnetic levitation; Magnetic forces on dipoles | (PDF) | Chapter 9 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | |
| 19 | Magnetic fields: Force and torque on a current loop | (PDF) | Chapter 9: Sections 9.3-9.4, 9.10.2, 9.11.6, and 9.11.7 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | |
| 8 | 20 | Faraday’s law | (PDF) | Chapter 10 (PDF) |
| 21 | Faraday’s law (cont.) | (PDF) |
Chapter 10 (PDF) Chapter 11: Section 11.1 (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
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| 22 | Mutual inductance and transformers; Inductors | (PDF) | Chapter 10 (PDF) | |
| 9 | 23 | Inductors and magnetic energy; RL circuits | (PDF) | |
| 24 | Exam 2 information | (PDF) | Chapter 11: Sections 11.1-11.4 (PDF - 1.0 MB) | |
| 10 | 25 | RC and RL circuits | (PDF) | Chapter 11: Sections 11.5-11.6 (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| 26 | RC and RL circuits (cont.) | (PDF) | Chapter 12 (PDF) | |
| 11 | 27 | LC, and undriven LRC circuits | (PDF) | Chapter 12 (PDF) |
| 28 | Driven LRC circuits | (PDF) | Chapter 13 (PDF) | |
| 29 | Driven LRC circuits (cont.) | (PDF) | Chapter 13 (PDF) | |
| 12 | 30 | Maxwell’s equations, EM radiation and energy flow | (PDF) | Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 31 | Maxwell’s equations, EM radiation and energy flow (cont.) | (PDF) | ||
| 32 | EM radiation | (PDF) | ||
| 13 | 33 | Generating EM radiation | (PDF) | Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 34 | Exam 3 information | (PDF) | Chapter 14 (PDF) | |
| 14 | 35 | Interference | (PDF) | |
| 36 | Final exam | (PDF) |
